Lady&#39;s undergarment



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Sept. 12, 1944. H. DAMoND LADY' S UNDERGARMENT 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 2 1942 HAR RY D IAMO ND INVENTOH BY W fim/i- TTORNE Y shaped brassire portions to Patented Sept. 12, 1944 2,357,794 LADY'S UNDERGARMENT 'Harry Diamond, Cedarhurst, N. Y., assignor .to

Promiss Slips, New York, N. Y., a firm composed of himself and Paul Walter Application March 2, 1942, Serial No. 432,960

1 Claim.

In the usual design of undergarments of the type known as slips having breast receiving pockets combined therewith, the pockets are formed by darts or pleats. The. superposed edge portions of the fabric at each dart or pleat form a bulge which irritates the wearer.

When a stress is exerted from the rear portion of the garment, gathers are formed, which impair the fit of the breast portions and also the waist line, causing the whole garment to ride up and irritate the wearer.

In the combination brassire slipherewith disclosed the pocket forming means or darts are shown moved from the usual central lower portions of the brassire sideways and to a higher elevation. The pocket forming means have also been positioned diagonally of the central portion of the brassire elements.

Furthermore, in the garment herewith disclosed, the usual substantially vertical side seams and the vertically seamed sections have been modified and diagonally positioned seams substituted, resulting in back shield sections extending from the back, around the sides and considerably around the front of the garment.

The side seams at the brassire elements have been made to follow diagonally toward the under arm points. The garment comprises central front and back panels which terminate in inverted V- shaped upper portions. The back shield sections are arranged in the garment so that the warp threads are linearly directed in line with the seam connecting the back shield'sections and the brassire elements. The back shield sections extend to the mid-portion of the back panel. When a pull is exerted from the rear of the garment, the said back sections transmit stresses to two substantially xed points of contact in Vthe front panel and these points are held taut relative to the weareris body. These tautly held points of contact are at the lower points of the inverted V-shaped upper portion of the front panel.

The above design, whereby two substantially fixed points of support are provided at the lower points of the angular portion of the front panel, relieves the wearer of the usual irritating discomfort caused by the movements of the darts and wrinkles that are formed.

The above design permits form-fitting cupare permitted to remain in their form-fitting position at all times, regardless of distortions caused by the movements of the'wearer's body. v i

With the above and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly be employed which I described, and the combination and'arrangement of parts will be shown in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims which form part of this specification.

Reference will now be had to the drawings, wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the severall views, in which:

Figure 1 is a front View of the garment, slightly in perspective.

Figure 2 is a rear view of the garment, slightly in perspective.

Figure' is a side View of a fragmentary portion of the garment, the upper portion being broken away to show a double layer back shield.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings as embodied in a garment of the slip type comprising a bodice portion IU and a skirt portion I l continuous therewtih. The garment is'supported by shoulder straps IZ secured'to both ends of the front and back in the usual manner. The garment comprises a front panel l3, a rear panel l4 and side panels I5, I5,'the side edges of the side panels being stitched to the side edges of the front panel and to the side edges of the rear panel. p

The front panel l3 terminates in an inverted V-shaped upper portion IB, in spaced relation from the neck line Il; that is, below two brassire sections l8. The'rear panel Ill terminates in an inverted V-shaped upper portion l9 at the neck line l'l.

The brassire sections l8 are formed to provide two form-fitting cup-shaped elements 20', which are stitched to the sides 2l of the inverted V- shaped upper end of the front panel l3. The cup shapes are preferably formed by means of darts 22. yThe darts 22 are positioned diagonally and sideways of the central portions of the brassire elements, that is, at the sides of the gar- 7 ment.

The slip also comprises two back bust sections 23, which are connected to the cup-shaped brassire sections by stitching on diagonal sides 24 of the cup-shaped brassire sections l8. The back bust sections 23 are also connected to the side panels l5 on lines 25, forming continuations of the sides 2l of the V-shaped front panel, l3.

The back bust sections 23 extend to the midportion of the rear panel l4. The back bust sections 23 aremade of w-oven'fabric and are arranged in the garment so that the warp threads 21 are linearly directed in line with the diagonal `lines 24 of the brassire sections IB. This arrangement of the warp threads 21 prevents stretching of the back bust sections along the said diagonal lines 24, whereby when the wearer stretches her arms and causes the garment to enlarge crosswise, the substantially non-stretchable linearly directed warp threads along the said diagonal lines 24 cause transmission of stresses directly to the lower points 26 of the inverted V- shaped upper portion of the front panel l3 and support the garment by means of diagonally tensioned under bust lines in which the two substantially fiXed points of contact 26 lie, the two points 26 being held taut relative to the wearer's body.

The above arrangement of parts, whereby the garment is held substantially taut on the body of the wearer by the back bust sections and by the substantially 'non-stretchable diagonally seamed lines 24, supports the garment on the wearer without any support from the shoulder straps l2, in such manner that the form-fitting cupshaped brassire sections l8 are thereby permitted to remain in their form-fitting position at all times, regardless of distortions in the garment fabric caused by the movements of the wearer's body. By the above construction the desired coni tour of the brassire sections is unimpaired.

The above arrangement for supporting the garment when under stress, while the cup-shaped elements remain substantially motionless, also relieves the Wearer of the irritating discomfort caused by garments in which the darts are movable, and the whole garment rides up, the bulges rearwards of the darts, in the usual form of construction causing considerable irritation to the Wearer.

It is to be noted that the back section inserts or back shields 23 are preferably made in double layers which assist in preventing stretching of the fabric along the diagonal lines 24. In the preferred form of the garment as illustrated, the two back bust sections are joined together at the middle of the rear portion of the garment and each back shield 23 extends continuously as an unbroken piece of material from a brassire section l8 to the mid-portion of the rear panel l4,

It is also to be noted that while the garment fabric may yield both vertically and horizontally, that the structure herein described prevents stretching of the fabric along the diagonal lines 24. i i i The folds caused by darts positioned at' the central portion of the brassire elements cause excessive bulkiness, especially in 'brassire elements comprising two plies of fabric.

It will thus be seen that there has been provided a tight-fitting Woman's undergarment in the form of a slip, so constructed that when the wearer exerts'a force tending to cause enlargement of the garment, that the rear waist portion of the garment which fits snugly, transmits a pull directly to the diagonally tensioned under bust lines in which the two points 26 of the inverted V-shaped upper portion of the front panel I 3 lie, causing the said portion of the panel l3 to tightly engage theV body ofthe wearer, without transmitting any stress to the brassire elements. .It will thus be'seen that the brassire elements above'the two said points are not under stress and thusremain, substantially motionless. This removes any tendency for causing irritation which would be caused when the dart portions of the said brassire elements were permitted to move up and down on the body of the wearer, as is customaryl in garments wherein the bIaSSiI elements move up and down on the body of the wearer during the movements of the weaier's body.

As shown in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, it willl be seen that there has been provided an elongated vertically disposed connection or junction between the cup-shaped elements 20, 20. This extended vertical connection permits each rhombus-shaped element to be acted upon individually by its adjacent tensioned line 24. This feature is important When the Wearer causes distortio-n in only one side of the garment. straight vertical line permits the cup-shaped elements to follow the natural boundar'ies of the breasts of the female wearer of the garment. As; best .shown in Figure 3, it will be clearly seen that the jonder of the two back bust sections 23 at the rear of the garment is higher than the joinder of the two brassire sections I8, at the front of? the garment. The seam lines from the joinder ZQ thus slope downwardly and, forces transmitted along these seam lines continue in a direction directly below the brassire sections. These forwardly and downwardly sloping tension lines or seams, relieve the brassire elements of stress.

In accordance with the patent statutes I have described and illustrated the preferred embodi- Vment of my invention, but itl will be understood that vario-us changes and modifications' can be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the appended 'claim.

I claim:

In a slip-type undergarment having a front panel secured by vertical seams and having sii"- stantially rhombus-shaped brassire or breast re-v ceiving sections positioned above said front panel,- each of said brassire sections having cup-shaped forming darts positioned in offset relation from and rearward of the central portion thereof, said brassire sections being joined along an extended vertical line, means for relieving said brassire sections of distortions of the fabric caused during wear, said means comprisng elongated back bust sections joined together at the rear mid-portion of said garment and extending in a zone all around the rear and sides of said garment and terminating at the upper ends of said vertical seams, said back bust sections respectivey extending all along the sides of said brassire sectio-ns in which said darts are formed and being stitched to said sides, each of said back bust sections comprising two superposed layers of fabric and having warp threads extending in a linear direction with the dart carrying sides of said brassire sections for imparting reinforcement to said back bust sections against stretching along said zone, the joinder of said back bust sections at the rear of the said'garmentV being higher than the joinder of said brassire sections at the front of said garment, the seams from said rear joinder sloping forwardly and downwardly between said back bust sections and said skirt panels, whereby forces exerted along said zone will terminate in tensioned and non-stretchable diagonal under bust boundary lines directly below said brassire sections, said darts being positioned in direct adjoining relation with said tensioned and non-stretchable diagonal under bust lines thereby restraining excessive movements of said dart carrying sides and causing the fabric of said brassire sections to remain Substantally free of distortions due to movements of the wear's body.

' i HARRY DIAMOND- 

